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...opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were set on giving the Resolution some teeth. Notable hecklers: Florida's Claude Pepper and three of the four "B2H2 boys...
...year, reporters accustomed to writing the yearly story about the lush pay of Hollywood stars blinked and looked again. No. 1 on the list was no surprise: as usual, it was the Majmifico of the Movies, Loew's and M.G.M.'s cold-eyed Louis Burt Mayer. But No. 2 was a brand-new name: Carl Gustave Swebilius, head of a New Haven, Conn, engineering outfit called Dixwell Corp., and of two subsidiaries aptly named High Standard Manufacturing Co. and High Standard Manufacturing Corp...
...Burt Wheeler wanted to keep pre-Pearl Harbor fathers out of the draft, at least until next year. To the nearly empty floor he cried...
...from isolation in this country is becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...
...Bespectacled, bankerish Burt J. Craig, 57, named last week as treasurer and vice president, joined Ford as a bookkeeper in 1907, was made secretary and assistant treasurer in 1918, has carried most of the treasurer's load since. Quiet-spoken, unspectacular Craig administers Ford deposits in some 100 U.S. banks, never dabbles in production. Because of Henry Ford's complete non-interest in figures, even his own millions, Craig has devised a system which distills the empire resources in a few figures that can be scrawled on a paper, read at a glance...